Saseno

American  

[sah-suh-naw] / ˈsɑ səˌnɔ /

noun

1. an island off the W coast of Albania, at the entrance to Valona Bay: belongs to Albania. 2 sq. mi. (5 sq. km).

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Example Sentences

So Mussolini's most practical route into the Balkans lies across the Strait of Otranto, on one side of which he has a base at Brindisi and at the other the fortified island of Saseno.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Russians are thought to have established a base, complete with floating drydock, on Albania's Saseno Island.

From Time Magazine Archive

Saseno, as one of the Ionian Islands, became a British protectorate in virtue of the Treaty of Paris of Nov.

From The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 by Various

The 24. in the morning wee found ourselues before an Island called Saseno, which is in the entrie to Valona, and the wind prosperous.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 09 Asia, Part II by Hakluyt, Richard

It is protected by the island of Saseno, the ancient Saso, and by Cape Glossa, the northernmost headland of the Acroceraunian mountains.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various